The UO junior right-hander out-pitched Cole, the New York Yankees' first-round draft pick last summer, and outwitted the UCLA hitters with a series of breaking balls to lead the Ducks to a 3-2 victory in the opener of a Pac-10 baseball series before an announced crowd of 2,204.

strike out on a low breaking ball away that escapes the catcher and allows Griffey to sweep around to second: "That guy is so good that the defense high-fived each other for holding him to two bases on a strike-out

Murray, who pitched a no-hitter for Milford High in his first varsity start this spring and didn't give up an earned run in 24 innings during the regular season while going 4-0, was quick to share credit with all his teammates and coaches as well as a fairly-unlikely source, a co-worker of his father's, Joe Lasozza, who adjusted his delivery on his curveball, improving a good breaking ball to a downright deadly one.

On a Wednesday night when he later claimed he didn't have his best stuff, when his pitch count became so bloated so early that he had lost any chance at a complete game by the third inning, when he couldn't throw his breaking ball for strikes and couldn't find anything remotely resembling a groove, all Lowe managed to extract from himself was this: Seven shutout innings.

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